The Quiet Hour
When a retired lighthouse keeper is asked to train her replacement, one final winter on the coast forces her to reckon with the family she left on shore forty years ago.
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When a retired lighthouse keeper is asked to train her replacement, one final winter on the coast forces her to reckon with the family she left on shore forty years ago.
A trading-post clerk turned smuggler navigates a port city on the edge of revolt, in the second installment of Okafor's acclaimed coastal trilogy.
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Adapted from the novel of the same name: twenty-eight years after a violent attack shatters the Quinn family, sisters Charlotte and Samantha are forced to confront the trauma and secrets they've spent decades trying to bury when a new crime tears through their small town of Pikeville.
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